{"id":236888,"date":"2026-05-10T22:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/optogenetic-mediated-contractility-enables-reversible-control-of-microglial-morphology-and-migration-in-vivo"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:06:33","slug":"optogenetic-mediated-contractility-enables-reversible-control-of-microglial-morphology-and-migration-in-vivo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/optogenetic-mediated-contractility-enables-reversible-control-of-microglial-morphology-and-migration-in-vivo","title":{"rendered":"Optogenetic mediated contractility enables reversible control of microglial morphology and migration in vivo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/optogenetic-mediated-contractility-enables-reversible-control-of-microglial-morphology-and-migration-in-vivo.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biermeier et al. use live imaging in zebrafish to show that microglia alternate between distinct morphological states that support brain surveillance and phagocytosis. By optogenetically controlling cytoskeletal contractility, they demonstrate programmable, reversible control of microglial behavior in the living brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biermeier et al. use live imaging in zebrafish to show that microglia alternate between distinct morphological states that support brain surveillance and phagocytosis. By optogenetically controlling cytoskeletal contractility, they demonstrate programmable, reversible control of microglial behavior in the living brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}